SCHOOLS ST CLARE’S SCHOOL
St Clare’s provides an exceptional education for pupils aged 2 ½ in Nursery through to Sixth Form. We are extremely proud of our Day nurseries UK Top 20 Nursery (Wales) 2021 Award, with an incredible 10/10 parent-review score. Our A-Level and GCSE results are consistently well above the national average. Last year, our A-Level students celebrated our track record for outstanding results with 61.4% at A*/A and 86.4% at A*/B, with 100% of students gaining their first-choice university destinations with many in the Russell Group including St Andrew’s, Cardiff, Durham, Exeter, Manchester, Nottingham and Queen Mary’s, London. St Clare’s have been in the top 5% of top-performing A-Level schools in the UK for ALPS (A-Level Performance System) since 2018. Our Sixth Form students benefit from a unique education with smaller tutorial-style groups, new Sixth Form Centre and six lessons per subject per week, delivered by experienced subject specialists and examiners. Our Admission Team are here to make the admissions process as smooth as possible for you. Visit www.stclares-school.co.uk or call us on (01656) 789966 to book a place at our Virtual Open Morning at 9:15 on Tuesday, 8th February, or our A-Level Options Evening at 5:00 on Tuesday, 8th February. Helen Hier, Head Teacher
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THE BRIDGE Welcome back after the Christmas break and a happy new year! Also, welcome back from the Bridge, as we’ve been absent for a little while. Mrs Morriss who was our longest serving teacher and our regular Seaside News writer retired last July. We miss you! We saw a lot of changes last year. First of all congratulations to Mrs Joyner who was appointed headmistress and welcome to our new deputy head Mr Whitchurch. This term, Key stage 3 has already been enjoying our topic Star 36 | seaside news
Email us your report to: info@seasidenews.co.uk Gazing and as well as learning about planets and the space race, they’ve been fascinated learning about the mission to Mars. They are looking forward to designing and making their space suit badges in art lessons. All pupils are enjoying their Wednesday afternoon enrichment time and are fortunate to have Miss Mattravers leading our Drama therapy sessions and we are very lucky to have Dallaglio back to coach our pupils in both rugby and football skills. We are looking forward to welcoming Mr White for our music therapy sessions, which will be wonderful in developing our wellbeing, especially in these unusual times. Cameron, Tom, Kade, Harry and Ellie (Taith)
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A group of Year 11 students, helped by Mrs Bennion, organised a most generous Foodbank donation. With Covid preventing collections last year, it was great to be able to support this amazing charity once again. A wide variety of goods were donated by staff and pupils and thanks to all who made a donation to help those less fortunate. Your donations this year were needed more than ever. Pupils, Cara Wheatley and Isobel Evans remarked, “It was lovely to see Porthcawl Comp coming together to help people in need, especially after this hard year”. We have decided that the Year 12 and Year 9 ‘Option Evenings’ will be held remotely. Arrangements have been made and shared with the learners and their families. The Year 12 option event shares the planning for the Year 12, (September 2022) entry. Should anyone wish to consider their Sixth Form study to be at our school then please call 01656 774100 or email info@ porthcawlschool.co.uk to arrange a visit. I would just like to thank Canon Masson once again for allowing us to use the beautiful All Saints Church to record our virtual carol service, which we then shared via a YouTube link. We received very positive feedback from those who saw it and were delighted to be able to share the service with our school community. Andrew Slade, Head Teacher
